1996年3月
Pit structure on bacterial cell surface
BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
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- 巻
- 220
- 号
- 3
- 開始ページ
- 979
- 終了ページ
- 982
- 記述言語
- 英語
- 掲載種別
- 研究論文(学術雑誌)
- DOI
- 10.1006/bbrc.1996.0526
- 出版者・発行元
- ACADEMIC PRESS INC JNL-COMP SUBSCRIPTIONS
The yellow-pigmented bacterium isolated from a ditch was a Gram negative rod with a G+C content of 63 mol%, and was classified in the genus Sphingomonas. Electron microscopy revealed that the bacterial cell surface was covered with many large plaits. When grown in a medium containing a polysaccharide as an essential nutrient, a pit of 0.02 similar to 0.1 mu m in diameter was formed on the cell surface, and a thin section showed the rearrangement of the plaits and the presence of a region where the cell membrane sinks into the cytosol. The dependence of the pit formation on the presence of macromolecule may predict the existence of a direct uptake mechanism for macromolecules through a mouth-like pit, possibly in endocytosis fashion. The confirmation of the pit structure is the first such finding in the history of microbiology and may provide a new insight into the cell morphology and biochemistry of macromolecule transport in microbial cell system. (C) 1996 Academic Press, Inc.
- リンク情報
- ID情報
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- DOI : 10.1006/bbrc.1996.0526
- ISSN : 0006-291X
- J-Global ID : 200902123617335782
- Web of Science ID : WOS:A1996UE85300089